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People Name Word Answers Ending with "-es"

All of these answers (most of them people or characters) end with an "-es" that sounds like "ees". Can you think of any others I can add?
All answers are singular proper nouns
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Last updated: October 17, 2021
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First submittedFebruary 6, 2019
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The father of Western philosophical tradition
Socrates
Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer
Archimedes
Greek mathematician who first calculated the Earth's circumference
Eratosthenes
Greek "Father of Comedy"
Aristofanes
Greek "Father of Medicine"
Hippocrates
One of the three great Greek tragedians
Sophocles or Euripedes
Greek general who also led Athens
Pericles
Greek god of war
Ares
Greek messenger of the gods
Hermes
Greek god of the dead
Hades
Greek hero of the Trojan War
Achilles
The greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity
Heracles
The Roman equivalent of the above
Hercules
Latin name for the Greek hero of The Odyssey
Ulysses
Roman goddess of agriculture, or dwarf planet
Ceres
Fifth king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia
Xerxes
Egyptian pharaoh who was called "the Great"
Ramesses
In astronomy or astrology...fish
Pisces
Character in Cats, sometimes named Quaxo
Mr. Mistoffelees
River bordering Mesopotamia
Euphrates
Female name meaning "mercies", or a make of car
Mercedes
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Level 64
Jun 13, 2021
Nice quiz, even though it does put my (lack of!) knowledge of Classics to shame!

You might like to add Damocles - it was one of the few answers I could think of but then it didn't show up... 😮

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Level 85
Jun 14, 2021
Thanks for the idea!